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  Marriage as vocation: Growing together in faith and love https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/marriage-vocation-growing-together-faith-and-love

 https://www.jesuit.org.sg/tag/saints-martyrs-december/ SAINTS DECEMBER 01 St. Edmund Campion. Edmund was born in London, the son of a bookseller. He was raised a Catholic, given a scholarship to St. John's College, Oxford, when fifteen, and became a fellow when only seventeen. His brilliance attracted the attention of such leading personages as the Earl of Leicester, Robert Cecil, and even Queen Elizabeth. He took the Oath of Supremacy acknowledging Elizabeth head of the church in England and became an Anglican deacon in 1564. Doubts about Protestantism increasingly beset him, and in 1569 he went to Ireland where further study convinced him he had been in error, and  he returned to Catholicism. Forced to flee the persecution unleashed on Catholics by the excommunication of Elizabeth by Pope Pius V, he went to Douai, France, where he studied theology, joined the Jesuits, and then went to Brno, Bohemia, the following year for his novitiate. He taught at the college of Prague an...

  We pray that Pope Leo XIV be strengthened in his ministry. May he continue building bridges that connect us to one another. May he be an example of faith, hope and love. We pray that you give him joy in his work and a renewed fervor for your Gospel message. May he never lose sight of Christ who walks before us and among us — particularly in the most vulnerable, the forgotten and the outcast. Christ Jesus, bless Pope Leo XIV — and bless us, your holy people, as together we strive to be your Body in our wounded world. Amen. https://www.jesuits.org/stories/a-prayer-for-pope-leo-xiv/

  St Andrew https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/340

  Pope presides over historic Mass in Istanbul https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/53817

Nov 30 First Sunday of Advent https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day.html Gospel in Art: First Sunday of Advent https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/53819  Reading of the day A reading from the Book of Isaiah 2:1-5 This is what Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. In days to come, the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills. All nations shall stream toward it; many peoples shall come and say: "Come, let us climb the LORD's mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths." For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and impose terms on many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; one nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. O house of Jacob, come, let us...

  Gospel in Art: First Sunday of Advent https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/53819

  A look at the Council of Nicaea's impact on the Church - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2025-11/council-nicaea-history-arianism-divinity-christ.html

  Pope: Nicaea invites Christians to unity in face of violence, conflict - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-11/pope-leo-xiv-ecumenical-prayer-turkiye-iznik-nicaea.html

  St Brendan of Birr https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/339

  Gospel in Art: A sword will pierce through your own soul also https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/53813

  Saint of the Day - Calendar of Saints - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints.html

  Gospel and Thought for the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day.html

 SAINTS NOVEMBER 29 St. Paramon and Companions, Three hundred and seventy five Roman Catholic Martyrs, who are reported to have been put to death on the same day during the persecutions of the Church under Emperor Trajanus Decius. Feastday Nov 29 Sts. Saturninus & Sisinius Roman Catholic Martyrs of Rome. Saturninus was a priest from Carthage who went to Rome and was arrested with a deacon, Sisinius, during the persecutions of Emperor Maximian. They were sentenced to hard labor and either died during their ordeal or were tortured and then beheaded. It is known with certainty that Saturninus lived, was martyred, and was buried on the Via Saleria, Rome, Feastday Nov 29 St. Cuthbert Mayne, 1577 A.D. An English martyr, born near Barnstable, in Devonshire, as a Protestant. He converted to Catholicism at St. John’s, Oxford. Cuthbert was ordained at Douai, France, and sent home to England about 1575. Working in Cornwall, he was captured after a year. Condemned for celebrating a Mass, h...

  St Catherine Laboure https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/338

  Gospel in Art: As soon as the trees come out to leaf, you know Summer is near https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/53804

  Gospel and Thought for the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day.html Nov 28 Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Gospel and Thought for the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day.html Reading of the day A reading from the Book of Daniel 7:2-14 In a vision I, Daniel, saw during the night, the four winds of heaven stirred up the great sea, from which emerged four immense beasts, each different from the others. The first was like a lion, but with eagle's wings. While I watched, the wings were plucked; it was raised from the ground to stand on two feet like a man, and given a human mind. The second was like a bear; it was raised up on one side, and among the teeth in its mouth were three tusks. It was given the order, "Up, devour much flesh." After this I looked and saw another beast, like a leopard; on its back were four wings like those of a bird, and it had four heads. To this beast dominion was given...

SAINTS NOVEMBER 28 St. James Thompson, Blessed, 1582 A.D. English martyr. A native of York, he studied for the priesthood at Reims and was ordained there in 1581. Arrested soon after his return to England, he was hanged at York. He used the name Hudson in his mission work. James was beatified in 1895. St. Andrew Trong, Roman Catholic and Martyr of Vietnam.  He was arrested in 1834 and in the presence of his mother he was beheaded. She knelt beside him at the execution site in Hué, receiving his head on her lap. Nov. 28 St. Catherine Laboure, Roman Catholic Virgin Nun. Three times in 1830 the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Catherine Laboure, who then was a twenty-four year old novice. Feastday: November 28 St. Fionnchu, 6th century. Abbot of Bangor Abbey, in Ireland, the successor of St. Comgall. ST. JAMES OF THE MARCHES, FRANCISCAN St James, known from his birthplace as “of the Marches” became a Franciscan in 1415. Much of his career was spent as a papal envoy in eastern Europe. He wa...

  St Francesco Antonio Fasani https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/337

  Gospel in Art: There will be signs in sun and moon and stars https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/53795

  Gospel and Thought for the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day.html Nov 27 Thursday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Gospel and Thought for the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day.html Reading of the day A reading from the Book of Daniel 6:12-28 Some men rushed into the upper chamber of Daniel’s home and found him praying and pleading before his God. Then they went to remind the king about the prohibition: “Did you not decree, O king, that no one is to address a petition to god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king; otherwise he shall be cast into a den of lions?” The king answered them, “The decree is absolute, irrevocable under the Mede and Persian law.” To this they replied, “Daniel, the Jewish exile, has paid no attention to you, O king, or to the decree you issued; three times a day he offers his prayer.” The king was deeply grieved at this news and he made up his mind to save Daniel; he worked ...

SAINTS NOVEMBER 27 Bl. Thomas Kotenda and Companions, Roman Catholics and Martyrs of Japan. He lived at Nagasaki until his condemnation and beheading, He was martyred along with ten companions.Feastday Nov27 St. James Intercisus, Roman Catholic Martyr of Persia. He declared himself to be a Christian to the new king, Bahram. When James refused to apostasize, he was executed by having his body cut apart piece by piece, beginning with his fingers (hence his surname Intercisus - cut to pieces), and then beheaded. Feastday Nov 27 St. Gallgo, 6th century. Welsh abbot, the founder of Llanalgo Abbey in Anglesey, Wales. St. Fergus, 721 A.D. An Irish bishop called "the Pict." He evangelized Scotland, where he was called Fergustian or Fergus of Scotland. He preached in Perthshire, Caithness, Buchan, and Forfarshire. Fergus was part of the Roman Council in 721.    St. Secundinus. Secundinus is also known as Sechnall and Seachnall. He was sent from Gaul in 439 to assist St. Patrick in Ire...

  St Leonard of Port Maurizio https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/336

  Gospel in Art: I will give you a mouth and wisdom https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/53786

  Gospel and Thought for the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day.html Nov 26 Wednesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Gospel and Thought for the Day - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/word-of-the-day.html Reading of the day A reading from the Book of Daniel 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28 King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his lords, with whom he drank. Under the influence of the wine, he ordered the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar, his father, had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, to be brought in so that the king, his lords, his wives and his entertainers might drink from them. When the gold and silver vessels taken from the house of God in Jerusalem had been brought in, and while the king, his lords, his wives and his entertainers were drinking wine from them, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone. Suddenly, opposite the lampstand, the fingers of a human ...